Smoke Rings
portable sensing device and simulator
2002-2005
Foley-Fisher, Z.; Rasmussen, J.; Karau, M.; O’Hanlon, B.; Cader,
R.; Cherubini, M.; Strohecker, C. (Media Lab Europe / Everyday Learning)
- CS role:
- research group principal investigator
- Paper:
- 2005 - An approach to the presentation of information from multiple
sensors
CITATION
- 2005 - An approach to the presentation of information from multiple
sensors
- Related papers:
- 2005 - Designing for sensing, sensibilities, and sense-making
PDF 2.4MB | CITATION | RELATED LINK - 2004 - Evolving literacy: Crafting messages for senses, sensibilities,
and sense-making
VIEW | CITATION - 2004 - The informal informing the formal in forming new models
of learning
PDF 4.1MB | CITATION | RELATED LINK
- 2005 - Designing for sensing, sensibilities, and sense-making
- Provisional patent filing:
- 2003 UK - Method and device for detecting toxic components in
an environment
CITATION
- 2003 UK - Method and device for detecting toxic components in
an environment
- Press:
- Demo:
- AVI
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This video shows interactivity with a sketch-level implementation. There is no sound.
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You can play "what if?" with levels and effects of environmental tobacco smoke. A handheld device detects significant chemical components of ETS. Changing levels register in real time as lines plotted around a clock-style display. The lines get longer and darker as chemical levels increase, and narrower and lighter as the levels decrease -- to create distinctive "smoke rings." You can upload the data to a simulator that projects possible long-term health effects of sustained exposures. The simulator shows X-ray-style visualizations of smoke-affected lungs, based on the commonly used metric of cigarette equivalency.